Structural member



Jan. 19, 1943. J F RONEY ET AL 2,308,831

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Patented Jan. 19, 1943 STRUCTURAL MEMBER John F. Honey and Richard W.Page, Los Angeles, Calif.

Application April 1, 1941, Serial No. 386,230

3 Claims.

This invention relates to structural members, and particularly to adevice for use in the erecting of steel scaffolding. v

At the present time, steel scaffolding is used for many purposes, suchas in the construction of ships, so that workmen may safely conveymaterials during a ship's construction, for use by stone or brick masonsin the erecting of the wall of a building, for use by plasterers, andwhere interior scaffolding is used by painters, carpenters, or otherswho must perform work within a building.

Another use for steel scaffolding is exterior a building and over asidewalk so as to protect pedestrians upon the walk and so that workmenmay either demolish or erect a building using the scaffolding as a meansof access to the work.

An object of the present invention is the provision of a device for usewith scaffolding which allows scafiolding to be readily braced and alsoI permits the ready erection of the scaifolding within a minimum oftime. Ordinarily, scaffolding includes struts which are spaced apart,with bracing between the struts. This bracing is secured to the strutsin various ways and the present invention provides a structural memberwhich allows the bracing to be secured to the struts or other membersrapidly, quickly and securely.

Other objects of the invention consist in the provision of a structuralmember, which is inexpensive in cost of manufacture, and generallysuperior to devices now known to the inventors for securing structuralmembers in working relationship.

With the above mentioned and other objects in view, the inventionconsists in the novel and useful provision, formation, construction,association, and relative arrangement of parts, members and features,all as shown in a certain emu bodiment in the accompanying drawing,described generally, and more particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawing:

Figure l is a fragmentary view of the improved device of the presentinvention shown in cooperation with certain structural members,

Figure 2 is a sectional detail on the line 2-2 of Figure l, and on anenlarged scale from said figure, and,

Figure 3 is an enlarged sectional view on the line 3-3 of Figure 1.

' Referring now to the drawing, the structural member is termed forconvenience a gooser," and said device includes a half-round or U-shaped member I, provided with a shank 2 extending laterally from oneside of the member I. This member may be solid or tubular and providedwith a diametric bore 3. A keeper 4 includes a bar whichislongitudinally slotted at 5, and provided with a part 6 adapted to spanthe legs of the U-shaped member I. A part I of the keeper is enlarged asto thickness, and likewise provided with a concave surface 8. Thus thedevice comprises a substantially U-shaped member provided with a shank,and a keeper member adapted to be moved to position one end thereofbetween the legs of the U-shaped member.

The operation, use and advantage of the device are as follows:

In scaffolding, it is ordinary practice to utilize struts with lateralsextending between the struts for the purpose of bracing the struts. InFigure 1, we have shown two spaced struts at 9 and I0, and a lateral atH. In order to secure this lateral to the struts, we provide two of thegoosers, with the shanks 2 received within the tubular ends of thelateral; as shown in Figure 2. A bolt I2 is passed through openings inthe lateral, and the transverse or diametrlc bore 3 in the shank 2. Theusual washer and nut is carried by the threads of the bolt, and theconcavity 8 of the keeper 4 permits this member to embrace the surfaceof the lateral. As the keeper 4 is slotted at 5, it may be moved so thatthe portion 6 overlaps the ends of the legs of the U- shaped member I,whereupon the nut may be tightenedupon the threads of the bolt to lockthe keeper 4 against movement. The same procedure is performed for theopposite end of the lateral. If it is known that the struts 9 and II!are always to be positioned a certain distance apart, then th lateralsmay have the shanks 2 secured within the said laterals by welding, asshown at l3. The nutand bolt arrangement is retained, however, so as tolock the keeper 4 in position of service and so that the U-shaped memberembraces the strut. For instance, in

' t Figure 2, the strut 9 is received within the confines of theU-shaped member I and the keeper 4, which is a slide-lock, holds theU-shaped member and the lateral carried thereby securely to said strut.

It is evident upon viewing Figure 1 that it makes no difference whetherthe struts 9 and I0 are vertical or are horizontal. In fact, the goosermay be a part. of a diagonal brace, and wherein a diagonal carrying thegooser extends between two laterals. The gooser" is adaptable tostructural member and for securing two members in working relationship.

we claim: 1. A structural device as disclosed, including a tubularlateral, an open-sided housing at one end of said lateral. a keeperprovided with a curved surface in engagement with the surface of thetubular. lateral, and means receiving the keeper to the lateral, thekeeper being movable to close the open side of the housing.

2. A structural device. as disclosed, including a tubular lateral, anopen-sided housing at one end of said lateral, a keeper provided with acurved surface in engagement with the surface of the tubular lateral,means for slidably mounting the keeper to the tubular lateral, saidkeeper being movable to close the open side of the housing, and saidkeeper being formed with a shoulder to engage the housing when thekeeper is closed over the open side of the housing and to limit movementof the keeperin one direction.

8. Ina structural device asdiscloeed, a U- shaped connecting member forembracing a strut a shank projecting laterally from said U- shaped.connecting member to be projected into 'an end of .a lateral structuralmember, a slide lock constructed and arranged to engage the outside ofsaid lateral structural member and to overlap the open side of saidU-shaped connectingmember. and a-single bolt extended through saidlateral structural member, shank and slide lock, and a nut on one end ofsaid bolt for engaging said slide lock for securing said lateralstructural member, shank and slide lock to-f gether.

JOHN I". RONEY. l RICHARD W. PAGE.

